August 6, 2026: Iran Seeks to Bar US Ships from Hormuz, Birth Tourism Order, More
episodePreviously titled “Iran Seeks to Bar US Ships from Hormuz, Birth Tourism Order, More” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 7, 2026
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Dan Schwartzman. Iran will seek to bar U.S. and Israeli ships from the Strait of Hormuz and require compensation from hostile countries before they're allowed to use it. Iran's Fars news agency has released details of the deal between Iran and Oman on passage through the strait. The deal reportedly says U.S. and Israeli vessels and any related cargo, military or civilian would be prohibited. Meantime, both U.S. and Iranian officials have been signaling in recent days that some kind of accord on Hormuz is close. President Trump spoke to reporters about the strait.
It's sort of open right now. You know, we have a thing called the blockade headed up by the U.S. Navy and we control it. And now. We control it, but they can always shoot something. They always have something or drop a mine. And if you have one mine sitting out there, you sort of mess things up because people don't want to take their billion-dollar boats and accidentally get hit by a mine.
That's President Trump. Separately, Farr said that Iranian naval forces had struck, quote, hostile targets at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices climbed and stocks fell on Thursday's developments. President Trump signed a pair of executive orders aimed at denying citizenship to certain people born in the U.S. Bloomberg's Amy Morris reporting from Washington.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says one order targets so-called birth tourism.
The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, but the real reason they're here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a U.S. citizen child. It gives them access under this broken system to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth.
Those born to people deemed to be alien enemies, foreign terrorists and foreign agents would also be ineligible. The orders are almost certain to be challenged in court as a violation of the 14th Amendment.
How will Iran’s new Hormuz policy affect U.S. and Israeli shipping and global oil markets?
In Washington, Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.
The Trump administration is considering issuing an executive order on vaccines and autism as soon as next week. More details from Bloomberg's Matt Piper.
The effort is prompted by President Trump's interest in seeing additional action when it comes to vaccines and autism. Options the administration is discussing include research initiatives encompassing both forward-looking studies and backward-looking analyses. Scientific evidence has shown no link between autism and childhood vaccines, and decades of research has failed to identify a single cause of autism. Trump has previously pushed to pare down the number of vaccines recommended for children.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has been discharged from rehab. McConnell has been absent from the Senate since June when he suffered a fall at home. A statement from McConnell says that he'll continue his recovery and physical therapy at home. McConnell is not running for reelection. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has demanded more transparency from McConnell on his health and ability to return to the Senate. Meta has been ordered by a New Mexico judge to pay $567 million into an abatement fund to address harms to teenagers' mental health. The judge wrote in his opinion that Meta, quote, knowingly designed its platforms to maximize engagement, including in ways that are harmful to teenagers and does not adequately disclose the risks of harm to its users.
Meta says it disagrees with the ruling and will appeal, company spokesperson Andy Stone said in an ex-post.
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